Now Registering! Awbury Arboretum's Wild Wisdom & Many Hands Herbal Aid Ed Courses
Phil Forsyth
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Date: Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 11:51 AM
Subject: [pufn] Now Registering! Awbury Arboretum's Wild Wisdom & Many Hands Herbal Aid Ed Courses
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Launched in 2019 in partnership with the Wild Foodies of Philly, this 9-month in-person and online program is designed to introduce participants to the most common 100+ wild edible, medicinal, and craft plants of the Philadelphia bio-region. Monthly sessions include in-class and in-field time to botanically I.D., gather, and harvest useful plants with in-depth sharing on plants’ ecological, nutritional, medicinal, and cross-cultural usage, as well as an online intensive on at-home preparation.
In person: Classes will meet on the 3rd Saturday of the month* in person at the Farm at Awbury, 6336 Ardleigh St. The AM class will run from 10:00 AM to Noon, and the PM class will run 1:00 to 3:00 PM. Students will register for one or the other time slot.
Online: The cooking portion of the class will be online for all students on the 3rd Sunday of the month* from 10:00 to 11:00 AM.
Guest Presenters: In the case of guest presenters, we will meet as a full group for the full 3 hours, with no online cooking class to follow.
The first Saturday class will be held on March 19th and the first on-line cooking class on Sunday, March 20th.
*Classes will generally meeting on third Saturday and Sunday of the month, with a few exceptions due to holidays. See registration page for full schedule.
WILD WISDOM is designed and taught by Alyssa Schimmel, along with support from community teachers and former Wild Wisdom Students. The program was founded in 2019 and developed in collaboration with Lynn Landes, founder of the Wild Foodies of Philly, an educational organization that was started in 2010 and Heather Zimmerman, Executive Director of Awbury Arboretum.
Alyssa Schimmel is a community herbalist, licensed massage therapist, gardener, grower, teacher, and forager passionate about sharing knowledge of regional food and medicine ways in community. She serves as the course designer and program lead of Many Hands Community Apothecary at The Farm at Awbury Arboretum, a mutual-aid herbal education program and community medicine network. She previously served as Education Director of The Philadelphia Orchard Project where she developed the School Orchard Program serving 14 K-12 schools and has collaborated with Awbury Arboretum teaching medicine making to youth of the Teen Leadership Program, catering seasonal dinners alongside Chef Gail Hinson and teaching medicine making and wild foods classes through Wild Foodies. She has also taught at institutions including Swarthmore College, Haverford College, The Village, and more. Her training includes studies through Wild Ginger Community Herbal Center, Sky House School of Herbal Medicine, Human Path school, Mountain Gardens, and formal study through David Winston’s School of Herbal Medicine.
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Herbal Aid Ed is a 9-month course of study designed and facilitated by community herbalist Alyssa Schimmel to celebrate herbal community wisdom and practice through community growing and production of plant medicines to serve collective care.
The program covers an introduction to 40+ plants from a range of cross-cultural traditions, weaving together the wisdom from many hands and many lands that includes cultivated, wild, and native medicines of our Philadelphia bioregion on the ancestral indigenous territory of the Lenni Lenape / Wingohoking. Each class includes hands-on time in the Many Hands Community Apothecary garden on-site at Awbury Arboretum covering various growing methods, as well as medicine processing methods including infusions, decoctions, tinctures, salves, infused honeys, vinegars, electuaries, syrups, flower essences, incense, powders, soaks, and more with a seasonal focus.
During each monthly class, students make shares of medicine for personal, family, and community distribution and become healing advocates in their community. The program also hosts ongoing opportunities for wider community engagement during garden volunteer days and medicine making sessions and will include future speaker series and on-off classes.
Students will leave with medicines they’ve made which will include extras for them to share and the making of additional medicines to support community distribution offerings, widening the reach of these shared learnings. In 2021, Herbal Aid Ed participants distributed over 200 pieces of herbal medicine including salves, teas, glycerites, electuaries, and oxymels to the Germantown community!
Herbal Aid Ed 2022 will meet April through December.
2022 Classes – first Sundays of the month, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM: April 3rd, May 1, June 5th, July 3rd, Aug 7th, Sept 4th, Oct 2nd, Nov 6th, and Dec 4th
2022 Garden Days – various Wednesdays, 4:00 – 6:00 PM: April 20th, May 18th, June 22nd, July 13th, Aug 17th, Oct 12th, Nov 16th
Location: the Farm at Awbury, 6336 Ardleigh St, Philadelphia
As part of this program, students will also be involved in out-of-class garden and apothecary hours, as well as community teaching days.
Enrollment for the program is open to 20 students, which includes two half-priced work-trade positions that will be supporting an additional monthly garden care day or apothecary day each month. Cost for the program is $675 and payment plans are available.
Cost: $675 for the full year
Participants have two payment options:
1) pay the full balance up front or
2) pay in two installments – $337.50 upon registration and $337.50 by July 1st
Please note: Registration is first come, first served, and we do anticipate this program to sell out. Please register using the form below.
We are offering two half-priced work-trade positions, which will support an additional garden care day each month. Interested? Contact Alyssa at wildw...@awbury.org
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